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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Times Advocate, 2008-10-29, Page 5Wednesday, October 29, 2008 Times -Advocate 5 OPINION FORUM&NEWS 10 YEARS AGO October 28, 1998 - Coach Dave Wright is reviving the wrestling program at SHDHS after the sport made an exit about 20 years ago. Volunteers for the Lucan Arthritis campaign raised $3,621.55 for this year. It s been a long process but the 911 emergency numbering system in Huron County has made visible progress with the erection of property plates in Usborne Township. 20 YEARS AGO October 26, 1988 - Jenny Rowe was the recent winner of the Heart of Golf Award sponsored by the Ontario Community Newspapers Association and Air Canada. 35 YEARS AGO October 26, 1973 - An Exeter native has been named president of the Federated Women s Teach- ers Association of Ontario. Joan Westcott, now a resident of Kitchener was elected to the top post with the Women s Teachers Federation at the re- cent annual meeting in Toronto. Ms. Westcott has been vice-principal of Crestview Public School in Kitchener for the past three years. Derry Boyle was acclaimed mayor of Exeter Tuesday morning when mayor Bruce Shaw with- drew his name. Boyle has served 11 years as reeve and three as councillor and was defeated by Shaw at the last election. A hobby to take care of spare time after retire- ment by an Exeter businessman is close to being a full-time business. In the past three years since retiring from the automobile and service station business, Harry Mathers has manufactured more than 100 Ice King curling scrapers. Tuesday after- noon one Ice King headed for the Prince George Golf and Country Club in British Columbia and another to the Canadian Forces Base in Baden Solingen in Germany. 45 YEARS AGO October 26, 1963 - Huron Park was cut off from long distance calls Tuesday when a cable was bro- ken at the corner of Huron and Main Streets in Ex- eter by a bulldozer. There is an interesting display in the T -A win- dow this week. The exhibit was placed by a num- ber of numismatics including Warren Sanders, Carl Radford and Wallace Pfaff. 50 YEARS AGO October 27, 1958 - Directors of Alcantuc Ltd. and their families celebrated the harvesting of the first crop of 10,000 turkeys last week with a banquet in one section of the large turkey barn west of Exeter. The main dish? Turkey, of course. Don Taylor has won his second bursary this year. The SHDHS student was recently awarded a $400 Aikinson award and he earlier received a Dominion -Provincial bursary valued at $500. 60 YEARS AGO October 27, 1948 - Bill 0 Brien was elected presi- dent of the high school student council with Anita Datars as vice-president and Frances Taylor as secretary. Workmen arrived on the seven acre site of the present school to start a new $560,000 high school building. 70 YEARS AGO October 28, 1938 - Quimby Hess of Zurich has donated a collection of Indian artifacts to the Museum of Indian Archeology at the University of Western Ontario. The artifacts were all found around Zurich and Grand Bend. The sugar beet crop looked good in 1938 with some farmers reporting sugar content as high as 15 percent with production up to more than 10 tons per acre. 85 YEARS AGO October 26, 1923 - Mr. and Mrs. Walter Connor motored up from Windsor on Monday in the new Connor automobile, the first all -Canadian auto. Messrs. Connor Brothers, who moved from Exeter to Windsor, have built a four cylinder air cooled motor on the same principle as the air cooled gas- oline engine. This car has no radiator and does not require water for cooling purposes. Mr. Connor expects they will be on the market next week. ROSS HAUGH Back in Time Seniors' Perspective By Jim Bearss SENIOR CORRESPONDENT Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster mind. You can t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying over the future. For every minute you are angry with someone, you lose 60 seconds of happiness that you can never get back. Quote of the Day; The Internet has it all wrong. Men my age don t want to be interactive. We don t even want to be active. Red Green Out & About Veteran s Day at Riverview Estates A presentation by Hilary Duenk, a grade 12 stu- dent of SHDHS who attended the Vimy Ridge dedi- J I cation ceremony in France last year will be viewed. BEARSS Jim Rutledge, Goderich will present his look on Hu- ron County Veterans. Exeter Legion will do a Remembrance Day ceremony. Everyone is welcome. This special event will be held on November 6th at 11:00 am. Lunch is available for $6. Legion, Exeter Legion Ladies Euchre Night on October, 29th 2008. Sign up at 7:00 p.m. and play at 7:30 p.m. Put a team in and call Sharon at 235-1299 Exeter Legion Men s Euchre Night on November 26th, 2008. Sign up at 7:00 p.m. and play at 7:30 p.m. Put a team in and call Sharon at 235-1299. Wings and Things started on Sat., Oct. 11, 2008, and will continue every 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month. Food will be served from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Take out will be available. Euchreama: Exeter Seniors will be hosting a Euchreama on Fri., Oct. 31, 2008 at the Exeter Legion, Branch 167. Euchre starts at 10 a.m. Good prizes and share the wealth, and lunch will be provided and the cost is only $6. Lucan Senior s Sunshine Club is sponsoring a Yuletide Euchreama on Thurs., Nov 13, 2008. Starts at 10 a.m., good prizes, Share the Wealth from the Pot of Gold and lunch pro- vided. Your cost is only $6. Crokinole: On Sat., Nov. 8, Zurich Mennonite Church as part of their Centennial Celebrations would like to invite those interested to join them in a crokinole tournament. It will take place from 12 noon 6:00 p.m. at the church. You must pre -register by November 2nd. For more information call Jim Ramer 519 2367332 Riverview Estates Craft & Bake Sale on November 1st at 9 12 noon. Lots of goodies to choose from and you can start your Christmas shopping early. Turn east at the Beer Store and follow the signs. The small cocktail (baby) carrots you buy in small plastic bags are made using the larger crooked or deformed carrots which are put through a machine which cuts and shapes them into cocktail carrots. Most people probably know this already. What you may not know and should know is the following: what happens once the carrots are cut and shaped into cock- tail carrots. They are dipped in a solution of water and a chemical in or- der to preserve them. You will notice that once you keep these carrots in your refrigerator for a few days, a white covering will form on the carrots; this is the chemical which resurfaces. At what cost do we put our health at risk to have esthetically pleasing vegetables which are practically plastic? Paul Newman Only women of a certain era will fully appreciate this true story. (If you don t understand this, tell your mother and she 11 get it!) A Michigan woman and her family were vaca- tioning in a small New England town where Paul Newman and his family often visited. One Sunday morning, the wom- an got up early to take a long walk. After a brisk five -mile hike, she decided to treat herself to a double -dip chocolate ice cream cone. She hopped in the car, drove to the center of the village and went straight to the combination bakery / ice cream parlor. There was only one other patron in the store: Paul Newman, sitting at the counter having a doughnut and coffee. The woman s heart skipped a beat as her eyes made contact with those famous baby -blues. The actor nodded graciously and the star struck woman smiled demurely. Pull yourself together! She chides herself. You re a happily mar- ried woman with three children; you re forty-five years old, not a teenager! The clerk filled her order and she took the double -dip choc- olate ice cream cone in one hand and her change in the other. Then she went out the door, avoiding even a glance in Paul Newman s direction. When she reached her car, she realized that she had a handful of change but her other hand was empty. Where s my ice cream cone? Did I leave it in the store? Back into the shop she went, expecting to see the cone still in the clerk s hand or in a holder on the counter or something! No ice cream cone was in sight. With that, she happened to look over at Paul Newman. His face broke into his familiar, warm, friendly grin and he said to the woman, You put it in your purse. than the Can I borrow $25? A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5 -year old son waiting for him at the door. SON: Daddy, May I ask you a question? DAD: Yeah sure, what it is? replied the man. SON: Daddy, how much do you make an hour? DAD: That s none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing? the man said angrily. SON: I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour? DAD: If you must know, I make $50 an hour. SON: Oh, the little boy replied, with his head down. SON: Daddy, may I please borrow $25? The father was furious, If the only reason you asked that is so you can borrow some money to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed. Think about why you are being so selfish. I don t work hard everyday for such childish frivolities. The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door. The man sat down and started to get even an- grier about the little boy s questions. How dare he ask such questions only to get some money? After about an hour or so, the man had calmed down, and started to think: Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that $25, and he really didn t ask for money very often. The man went to the door of the little boy s room and opened the door. Are you asleep, son? He asked. No, daddy, I m awake, replied the boy. I ve been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier said the man. It s been a long day and I took out my aggravation on you. Here s the $25 you asked for. The little boy sat straight up, smiling. Oh, thank you daddy! he yelled. Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up bills. The Man saw that the boy already had money, started to get an- gry again. The little boy slowly counted out his money, and then looked up at his father. Why do you want more money if you already have some? the father grumbled. Because I didn t have enough, but now I do, the little boy replied. Daddy, I have $50 now. Can I buy an hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you. The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little son, and he begged for his forgiveness. It s just a short reminder to all of you working so hard in life. We should not let time slip through our fingers without having spent some time with those who really mat- ter to us, those close to our hearts. Do remember to share that $50 worth of your time with someone you love. If we die tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a matter of hours. But the family & friends we leave behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives. Important Stock Information Normally I avoid discussing any advice regarding the buy- ing or selling of stocks, but I felt this is important enough to share and warn you since this explosive situation might prove to be yet another ENRON. Please review any hold- ings you might have in the following stocks: American Can, Interstate Water, National Gas Company, or Northern Tissue Company. Due to uncertain market conditions, I advise you to sit tight on your American Can, hold your Water, and let go of your Gas. You may be interested to know that North- ern Tissue touched a new bottom today, and millions were wiped clean. It s a tough market out there. Be careful! Retirement Planning If you purchased $1000 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49. With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1000. With World. Com, you would have had less than $5 left. If you had purchased $1000 of Delta Air Lines stock you would have had $49 left. But if you had purchased $1000 worth of wine one year ago, drank all the wine, then turned in the bottles for the recycling REFUND, you would have had $214. A Game Warden was driving down the road when he came upon a young boy carrying a wild turkey under his arm. He stopped and asked the boy, Where did you get that tur- key? The boy replied, What turkey? The game warden said, That turkey you re carrying under your arm. The boy looks down and said, Well, lookee here, a turkey done roosted un- der my arm! The game warden said, Now look, you know turkey season is closed, so whatever you do to that turkey, I m going to do to you. If you break his leg, I m gonna break your leg. If you break his wing, I 11 break your arm. Whatever you do to him, I 11 do to you. So, what are you gonna do with him? The little boy said, I guess I 11 just kiss his rear end and let him go! An older couple is lying in bed one morning. They had just awakened from a good night s sleep. He takes her hand and she responds, Don t touch me. Why not? he asked, she answered, Because I m dead. The hus- band asked... What are you talking about? We re both ly- ing here in bed together and talking to one another! She said, No, I m definitely dead. He insisted, You are not dead. What in the world makes you think you re dead? Because I woke up this morning and nothing hurts.